European eXPErimental Re-entry Testbed
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European eXPErimental Re-entry Test-bed (EXPERT) is a European Space Agency aerothermodynamics research programme. It was planned that vehicle will be launched on a Russian Volna launch vehicle and will provide knowledge and experience in the design and development of re-entry vehicles. [1] As of 2012, one element in a European Space Agency push to develop vehicles capable of re-entry has been pushed back until at least 2013 as the agency seeks a launch alternative to the Russian submarine-launched Volna rocket which was withdrawn. [2] One of its main goals was to test materials for ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), an unmanned, delta-winged plane launched in 2015 aboard ESA's new Vega small-satellite launcher. [3] Currently EXPERT remains in storage conditions in Turin. [4]
EXPERT Mission objectives
According to an ESA-ESTEC paper, [5] the EXPERT program has the following goals:
- Enable in-flight data gathering of selected aerothermodynamic phenomena with high accuracy and reliability
- Allow the validation of numerical modeling tools (CFD) and of methodologies for ground-to-flight data extrapolation
- Qualify in-flight classical and advanced measurement techniques
- Conduct extensive post-flight analyses based on in-flight data, pre-flight numerical databases, preflight ground testing activities.
References
- ↑ "Space cone to acquire expert data" . July 21, 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ Thisdell, Dan (June 25, 2012). "ESA re-entry test needs new budget after Russian pull-out" . Flightglobal.com .
- ↑ "European Re-entry Capsule Grounded After Russia Withdraws Launch Offer" . SpaceNews.com . June 7, 2012.
- ↑ "ESA Bulletin 161 (1st quarter 2015)" (PDF) . ESA Bulletin . ESA : 79. 2015. ISSN 0376-4265 . Retrieved 30 May 2015 .
- ↑ "European Experimental Re-Entry Testbed EXPERT: Qualification of Payloads for Flight" (PDF) .
External links
- European eXPErimental Re-entry Test-bed (EXPERT)
- EXPERT – European experimental re-entry test-bed
- EXPERT: An atmospheric re-entry test-bed
- Development of the re-entry spectrometer RESPECT for the ESA capsule EXPERT
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